| Show EDITORIAL PITH Seldom has Boston faced a more trying So1lom than was that of Inst Sunday when lie bluo IIIWH prohibiting the sale of candy fruit and soda wutel on the Lords day ero rigidly enforced Many Instances of almost pitiful suffering arc rojiorlcd but so far fortunately m > caau altlnH seem to have resulted The lack oi1 fatalities may or may not have boon mf due to the fact that while tho druggists wore not permitted to 1 U soda water tho I1cImlted 1 hotolke pcra were allowed to furnish bum to people who ordoied meals or samhvlchcy It I la probable that the alleys H1IHhlcheu I of Boston now contain enough sand wTchOR to keen tlc stray lops and cats from huncer for many weeks to come Chicago HocordHcmhl Our army In the Philippines has boon shamefully tracluceil by misrepresentation misrepresenta-tion and cxagKoratlon This army of C0000 men In three years of warfare against u mogt barbarous tnacnoroua foe has behaved with remarkable self reBtalnl and on the whole with a humanity hu-manity never surpassed In any conflict If we are to keep our promise to enforce Mindanao cannot peace and order In ndallO we afford to ahow the white feather to C icat of Malay pirates Portland Orcgo nlan S I The nrwnpaper to a large extent has absorbed and transformed tho energies of literature The free school In con luncllon with the newspaper has created a now and greatly enlarged reading public pub-lic Democracy hag evolved an average man wh > appears to dominate the tauten and standards of this reading public Chicago Inter Ocean I o I Just think of beer labeled Made In America n an Item of news from Germany Ger-many The seven kegs I presented In Now York to thc sailors of the Imperial yacht 0 had to pay duties amounting to JG750 on reaching a Gorman port They must bo apprehensive on the continent that American Amer-ican beer will become ns popular aM American oraL shoeaSt Louis GloboDemo oral i S 0 GIn I G-In any strike affecting the work of a publicservice corporation the interests oC the public arc more important than those of either employers or strikers Such a tieup as that m Sun FrancIsco Inlllcts great Inconvenience hardship and loss upon the entire community Thlq struggle strug-gle bears the obvious leospn that com panloo controlling public utilities shQuld De required to submit to fair arbitration when labor questions aro involved aa not to force a disastrous strike upon tho public Chicago Nows S 6 The people of the United States cat about 2CCOOCO worth of beef a day Now why should there not be 1 national fastIng fast-Ing so far as ths article of food Is concerned con-cerned for forty days let us any1 Thoro are n great many People who do not eat meat of any kind for forty days every year so there would bo no especial hardship hard-ship In a beef fast for this period This would mean a dead loss to the meat truat of JSOCCO 000 If tile trust is not broken up by tho law tho people can Institute a national na-tional boycott against trust beef and they can very soon kill 1 the combine Memphis Commercial Appeal o 4 t The cooks of France have long been estimated es-timated among its great artists When President Louhet advises tho cooks to look after their sauces and thus contribute contrib-ute to tho national prosperity ho utters nhrowd counsel I the sauce be right the viands cannot bo wrong The French philosopher who declared that he who Invents a new dish Is greater than he who discovers a new star dolled science In the hcacns But on the whole what good has the discovery of new stars done New atars Improve the manufacture of tcle scopes but new dishes 1C I healthful Improve Im-prove mankind Chicago Chronicle |
